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May 1, 2026
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Graduate Experience Designer

Manchester
Full-time
Hybrid
£30K/yr - £30K/yr
New Grad, Entry Level
Autotrader is the most trusted automotive marketplace in the UK, known for its innovative technology and diverse culture. They are seeking a Graduate Experience Designer to improve end-to-end experiences by collaborating with designers, product managers, engineers, and researchers.
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Responsibilities

  • Help improve end-to-end experiences by working closely with other designers, product managers, engineers and researchers
  • Support work from early ideas and discovery through to design, testing, and iteration of solutions, considering the needs of customers, consumers and colleagues throughout
  • Get hands-on experience contributing to a range of design activities, from shaping early ideas and analysing insights, to creating designs, taking part in workshops and testing concepts with users
  • Explore and build skills across different areas of design, including insight analysis, service design, interaction design, visual design and content design
  • Learn how to work with our design system to create consistent, high-quality experiences across journeys for customers, consumers and colleagues

Qualification

Required

  • You'll be a graduate (or graduating in 2026) in any degree discipline, or hold a level 6 qualification, with a passion for design and technology
  • An interest in end-to-end design, from understanding problems and analysing insights through to exploring ideas, designing and testing solutions
  • Some exposure to one or more areas of design such as interaction design, visual design, service design or content design, this could include sketches, storyboards, journey maps, wireframes, prototypes or written content, developed through education, personal projects or independent exploration
  • Curiosity and a willingness to learn, take feedback and develop your skills across different design disciplines
  • The ability to bring together different sources of information, make sense of them and form clear ideas or conclusions
  • Enjoy working with others and communicating ideas clearly
  • An interest in improving experiences across digital products and services for customers, consumers and colleagues

Preferred

Benefits

  • 28 days' holiday per year, and that's in addition to bank holidays and half-day closures on Christmas and New Year's Eve.
  • Enrolled in our pension scheme, where our standard contributions are 7% and employee contributions are 5%
  • Comprehensive private medical cover
  • Enhanced family leave provisions
  • Car salary sacrifice scheme
  • Share-save options
  • Access to 24/7 online GP and dentist
  • Specialist support for assisted fertility, gender dysphoria, menopause, period care plans
  • Hybrid model, Connected Working, combines the best of both worlds – office and home working
  • Two fixed weekly office days for team collaboration, plus one more day of your choice to suit your work-life balance
  • Remote-first periods at set times during summer and winter
You’ve probably heard of Autotrader, but do you know what we’re all about? We’re the most trusted, most visited automotive marketplace in the UK.
Glassdoor
3.0
Founded in 1977
Manchester, Manchester, GBR
1001-5000 employees
http://www.autotrader.co.uk